Star profile
HIP 38656
What is HIP 38656
In the Keel of the ancient ship Argo burns an orange giant 337 light-years away, a fragment of sky that Polynesian sailors used as a living compass. Its light set out around 1689, when Edmund Halley was already calculating the orbits that would bear his name. K-type stars have left the rapid hydrogen youth behind: they burn helium and swell into serene giants.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 38656 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is February: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for HIP 38656
- Constellation
- Carina
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.62
- Distance
- 337.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 118.722° · Dec -57.303°
- Catalogue
- HIP 38656 · HD 65273
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Other stars in Carina
Carina has 124 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- CanopusAlpha Carinae-0.62
- MiaplacidusBeta Carinae1.67
- AviorEpsilon Carinae1.86
- HIP 389085.59
- HIP 434995.59
- HIP 325315.60
- HIP 399575.66
- HIP 505205.66